Thank you for your post.
“Conversely (and here’s where it pertains to your question)in the same PC corruppted culture many things are done to SOLEY TO SATISFY PC.”
I've never heard of political correctness referred to as cultural corruption, but I think you make an interesting point in doing so.
In this case, however, I think that it would be overly superficial to chalk the decision up to mere political correctness. If I put myself in the shoes of an officer in charge of securing prisoners and I received a report that one of the prisoners had been punched or beaten, I would have to look into it. And I would have to take action if I found the allegations to be credible. If someone is given an order not to beat prisoners, and he smacks one anyway, we've got an issue. The problem here is that the response is potentially disproportionate to the alleged punch. Three elite soldiers serving in a combat zone should not be court martialed for punching a terrorist in the face. But neither can the US military condone punching prisoners in the Green Zone. There is a legitimate dilemma here.
"A military crash that has been two generations in the making is not long off."
I hope that prediction does not come true, TalBlack.
“In this case, however, I think that it would be overly superficial to chalk the decision up to mere political correctness.”
YOU REDUCE TO INSIGNIFICANCE A FORCE WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE NOT JUST FOR INCOPETENCE PROMOTED OVER COMPETENCE FOR 2 GENERATIONS, BUT FOR PROTECTING AN OPEN TRAITOR AMONG THE RANKS UNTIL HE DECIDED TO SLAUGHTER THEM.
AND THEN WITH THIS:
“The problem here is that the response is potentially disproportionate to the alleged punch.”
YOU LITERALLY DESCRIBE PC IN ACTION.
PC requires a mind to hold multiple “realities”. But, as the victims at the Ft.Hood slaughter discovered there is only ONE actual reality.
In the past in this nations military our side, the good guys, had to go a hell of a lot further than popping some enemy in the mouth to wind up on charges. There is plenty of action a commander can traditionall take if he discerns that his word is losing force with the fellas, or that the guys are getting a little loose or sloppy’.
This is all PC run amok. It is the death of Reason befor our very eyes.